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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's death toll has climbed to 35 from this week's violent storms.
Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley says a woman's body was found Saturday morning in rubble near her home in Smithville. Monroe County alone has now reported 15 deaths.
The National Weather Service...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Officials in southeastern North Carolina have confirmed three additional deaths from storms that hit the state, raising the confirmed death toll from storms there to 21.
Bladen County authorities say the dead include a 92-year-old father and his 50-year-old son. They were killed when they...

TOKYO (AP) - The number of dead and missing after Japan's earthquake and tsunami continues to rise. Japan's police agency says more than 8,400 people are dead and nearly 13,000 are listed as missing, though the two lists could include some duplication. But there's also a bit of good news...

SENDAI, Japan (AP) - The confirmed death toll from Japan's double disasters has climbed past 1,800, including 200 people whose bodies were found today along the coast. More than 1,400 are listed as missing and 1,900 were injured. But the number of dead is expected to grow substantially. The police...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Authorities say a third person has been killed in Missouri by a powerful storm system that spawned several tornadoes and claimed at least three lives in Arkansas.
Phelps County Emergency Management Director Sandy North says the woman was killed Friday morning when her home...

The World Health Organization declared Tuesday that the swine flu pandemic over.
The global body's pandemic alert shifted to the "post-peak" or "post-pandemic" stages.
WHO last week confirmed 18,449 deaths from swine flu worldwide since the outbreak began in April 2009. The number of lab-confirmed deaths globally has...

The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's powerful earthquake struck.
They didn't make it. The tsunami came in three waves, surging 200 yards into this Pacific Ocean resort town and dragging away the bus...

Thousands of firefighters and other rescue workers searched house by house Monday along France's devastated Atlantic coast, trying to help those still stranded by a storm that smashed sea walls and killed at least 62 people across western Europe.
The storm, called Xynthia, blew into France early Sunday with...

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet says the death toll has now reached 708 dead.
Rescuers edged their way toward residents trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday and survivors huddled around bonfires in the rubble of their homes as the death toll in Chile continued to rise after one...

A devastating earthquake has struck Chile, killing at least 214 people.
The magnitude-8.8 quake has collapsed buildings and bridges and sent a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean. Roads have been destroyed, and electricity, water and phone lines have been cut to many areas. In the town of Talca,...

Officials say rescuers have retrieved more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines. About 450 people have been killed in the country's worst flooding in 40 years after back-to-back storms started pounding the country's north Sept. 26. Officials...

Samoans searched flattened homes and debris-filled swamps Thursday as more military ships and planes began arriving on the disaster-stricken Pacific islands after an earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 150 people.
The day after the disaster struck, officials were expecting the death toll to rise as more areas...

Officials say a second earthquake has hit Indonesia on the heels of Wednesday's temblor that trapped thousands of people under collapsed buildings and killed more than 500. A government official says the toll is expected to get higher. The U.S. Geological Survey says Thursday's temblor was a powerful, shallow inland...

Officials say the death toll from the tsunami that crashed over some South Pacific islands is at least 150. Shortly after Samoa's prime minister told reporters 110 people had died in his country, the police commander said the toll would rise and it could take weeks to account for all...

Federal disaster officials say "tens of thousands" of people on American Samoa and Samoa will need their help after a lethal tsunami in the South Pacific. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was flying into American Samoa with food, water and repair supplies early Wednesday, and officials are anticipating the worst....

Authorities in Georgia say they have found another Southeast storm victim and the death toll is now nine. Douglas County Coroner Randy Daniel says authorities believe the woman was swept from her car just west of Atlanta during thunderstorms that brought several inches of rain to the area. He says...